Best Instance Poems
Below are the all-time best Instance poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of instance poems written by PoetrySoup members
Clutching This InstanceIf ever I had two hours with you… or three,
the vacancy of this night and lulled
shores would be refilled with the gushing
of frosted air on...
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Categories:
instance, absence, memory, time,
Form:
Carpe Diem
A Bohemian Maze of True EvilOnce so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...
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Categories:
instance, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form:
Narrative
Accepting Life VI turned,
towards my friend, who always was complaining
about the injustices and hardships of life and in
a calm voice I asked him:
" Tell me,...
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Categories:
instance, happiness, life, men,
Form:
Free verse
Blind PanicBlind panic
There was a warning came one day
It said disaster’s on its way
An old volcano in the distance
It could erupt in any instance
The molten ash...
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Categories:
instance, earth, fear, horror, natural
Form:
Sonnet
KarmaFluted hands angle on knees as glimpses
sort the knitted threads of a late afternoon
where gathering of blooms abide.
Almost friendless, a man inhabits his space
ready...
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Categories:
instance, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Humbling FirmamentBetween heaven and earth is so much more
You and I are for instance, but before
We were, there was and forever will be
The imprint of who...
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Categories:
instance, appreciation, love, sea, stars,
Form:
Couplet
The ConversationDark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he"...
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Categories:
instance, death, time,
Form:
Free verse
Visions In FatimaStrewn with buds onto night’s refrain
We followed the hovel of an outer-world,
As rustling leaves formed a map’s cave
Through a journey connecting reality;
Where our twin-...
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Categories:
instance, mystery, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Name GameThe Name Game
Understanding human nature can be very complex indeed
Especially when there are people whose names are hard to read
Let me give you some examples...
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Categories:
instance, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Listen To Your Heart
I see phantasms floating through the billowing early morning mist
where I stand alone by the black water as its ever
probing tongue licks gently at...
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Categories:
instance, desire, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
instance, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
As Clear as DaylightSometimes we can go all our lives seeing something without really having any insight into what we are seeing. For instance, hands in prayer position....
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Categories:
instance, allegory, introspection, perspective, prayer,
Form:
Didactic
I AmWho am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.
Sometimes I...
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Categories:
instance, i am, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
To Those That Say All Lives Matter When We Say Black Lives MatterYou say all lives matter
Bringing up all these colors
Like red, white, orange, and blue
But when a black life is taken, where on Earth are...
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Categories:
instance, black african american, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Big ProblemOnce there was a famous king,
More famous than Ozymandias.
His name was King Wolf.
Sultan was his nickname.
He called himself a benevolent despot;
And his style of...
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Categories:
instance, irony, satire, , ozymandias,
Form:
Narrative